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February's Journal
14/03/2025
March started with Dunk's 50th birthday party at a great restaurant just south
of Croydon. Rel and I met in central London and headed there together. We
ended up being sat on a children's table right in the corner, which was a bit
disappointing, but logistics is always difficult when there are 60+ people.
The food was amazing, and plentiful, so that helped. With a lack of running
at the moment I've also been taking a few outings back in a boat with fellow
masters/veterans/whatever we're called these days. That's been a ton of fun,
and almost makes me want to rejoin the club and get back into a squad... except
that I'm not sure I want to sacrifice my running at this stage, even if my
achilles has become so bad that I've basically run about twice since the start
of the month. I went to see my parents this last weekend and while I did run,
and Rel was there for a flying visit, which was lovely, the aftermath wasn't
great, even though I ran gently. Off the back of that I booked a physio
appointment for the end of this week, which I went to yesterday. Annoyingly,
although not really, because I want to be fixed, the achilles was barely
playing up, so I didn't have much to complain about to the physiotherapist.
He's given me an exercise to do, along with the stuff I've been doing for
years, and a suggestion to keep going to the gym to build strength around the
tendon and to get the blood flowing as much as possible. I've got a 'race'
this weekend which I'd be a little sorry to miss, but would rather if it was
going to push back my recovery for the proper ultra races I have in May and
June. Luckily, the race this weekend isn't really, it's more of a fun run for
Rel and me, and while it's a marathon distance, I can stop at 13.1 or 17 miles
if I need to as one's the official half way point (with transport back to the
start) and the other is 200m from my house, where I can get into the shower
and then into clean clothes before cycling another bike to the start/finish to
meet Rel and get everything home. We'll see how things pan out.
Immediately after the race (well, after getting home, showered, and having some
lunch) Rel heads off to the African continent for the first time this year.
Only DRC, Malawi, and Zambia this time around. Nothing too amazing. While
she's away I'll try to keep myself out of trouble, get my achilles fixed, and
try to get some miles back into my legs.
Work-wise this month I've been feeling a little underwhelmed by my job, but
also by my abilities. I don't seem to be getting involved in the major work
that's going on at the moment... and it's down to me to make that happen. And
I'm not doing so. Hopefully in a short time I'll feel a bit more enthusiastic
and a lot less like I'm spending the day shirking off. Thinking positively, I
have resolved both of my support tickets, LEAPPed my Red Hat Satellite host to
RHEL 9, and kept lots of things running as smoothly as I can, which isn't
nothing.
There's not much more to say about March at this point. I'll have more to fill
you in on in April's entry, whenever I get around to writing that... Oh, and
the site was offline for an indeterminate amount of time in the last few weeks.
No-one said anything, so I imagine no-one actually reads this any more, but at
least it gives me somewhere to write down what's going on in my life.